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...DeLay's announcement that he would abdicate his leadership post, top Bush advisers tell TIME, the President's inner circle always treated DeLay as a necessary burden. He may have had an unmatched grip on the House and Washington lobbyists, but DeLay is not the kind of guy?in background and temperament?the President feels comfortable with. Of the former exterminator, a Republican close to the President's inner circle says, "They have always seen him as beneath them, more blue collar. He's seen as a useful servant, not someone you would want to vacation with...
...Harvard’s campus, Huma Farid ’06 reported this November that a group of women yelled “filthy Jew-hater” at her because of her Muslim background. At the time of the verbal attack, Farid was wearing the hijab, or head scarf, indicating her Muslim faith...
DOUBLE SUPERSECRET BACKGROUND Animal House--inspired description a TIME reporter used in an internal e-mail a federal court forced the magazine to hand over to government investigators--revealing an unnamed source to be White House aide Karl Rove...
Corporate recruiters, enticed by the prospect of gaining a new perspective on applicants, have begun to utilize the facebook.com to perform the equivalent of a background check. The idea that the popular college networking site is a sheltered space for students to interact with their peers is looking more and more like a myth...
...lights. Within the lit frame, however, the décor is not incompatible with the early 1900s. The red lights are not the only delineating separating feature of the set, which was also designed by Lupa. A slightly reflective screen divides the living room foreground from the dining room background, allowing the juxtaposition of divergent actions in the two rooms, so the audience’s attention can easily shift back and forth between the two. The precise physical and mental spaces in which the play takes place are made more unclear by a staging that is self-consciously stylized...